Pan and plate lifter.



E. D. SCHMITT.

PAN AND PLATE LIFTER.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 1. 1914.

1L 13?,53@o Patented Apr. 27, 1915.

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ELLA D. SCI-IMITT, OF UPPER MONTCLAIR, NEW JERSEY.

PAN AND PLATE LIFTER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 2'7, 1915.

Application filed July 1, 1914. Serial No. 848,387.

'Be it known that l. ELLA l). Soimrr'r, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Upper Montclair. in the county of Essex and State of New Jersey, have invented a new and Tmprored Pan and Plate Lifter, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention has for its object to provide a pan and plate litter in two pieces, which are constructed of wire bent to obtain the greatest possible strength with the least weight. The construction permits the free movementof one of the pieces along the other for engaging the hooks on the pieces with a pan or plate or for disengag ing them therefrom.

Additional objects of the invention will appear in the following specificatioi'i in which the preferrei'l form of my invention is disclosed.

In the drawings similar reference characters ret'cr to similar parts in both the views in which- Figure 1 is a plan view showing how my invention is used; and Fig. 2 is a side elevation of Fig. 1.

By referring to the drawings it will be seen that the litter is constructed in two pieces 5 and 6, each of which is manufactured from a piece of wire. The piece 5 is looped at? and has parallel portions 8 spaced apart, these parallel portions 8 being bentat 9 and being twisted together at 10, by which means the terminal hooks 11 are strengthened. These terminal hooks 11 are bent so that they may be disposed under the rim 12 of a plate 13. The other wire member 6 is transversely disposed at 14 over the portions 3 of the wire member 5, the said other wire member (5 being bent downwardly at 15 at the outer sides of the portions 8 ot the wire member 5. The wire member (3 is then bent inwardly at 16 and longitiulinally oi the portions 8 of the wire member 5 at 17, the wire member 6 then being'bent up at 18 and outwardly over the portions 8 of the wire 1:), terminals 19 of the said wire member 6 being bent down to form hooks for engaging the rim 12 of the plate 13 so that they may cooperate with the hooks 11 which have been described.

Itwill be understood that with this construction the lifter will be very light in weight while it will be sufiiciently strong to lift any necessary weight. The litter is also of durable construction and may be manufactured at a trifling expense.

Having thus described my invention I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent:

In a device of the class described, a wire looped with its two parts disposed substantially parallel and spaced apart for a distancc, the two parts of the wire being twisted together adjacent the terminals of the wire, the terminals of the wire being bent to form hooks, a second wire disposed transversely over the spaced apart portions of the first wire, the second wire being bent down at the outer sides of the spaced apart portions of the first wire and then extending for a distance substantially parallel with each portion of the first wire in the direction of the hooks, the portions of the second wire being then bent outward over the top of the said portions of the first wire and down to form hooks for cooperating with the first mentioned hooks.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto signed my name to this specification in the presence of the undersigned witnesses.

ELLA D. SCHMITT.

\Vitnesses:

ELLA DONOLDSON, Enoisn S. Mowaer. 

